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JOURNEY TO THE SON follows the author’s personal journey to motherhood.
Kelly Mendenhall’s heavily tattooed body forms the foundation of her memoir, SKIN IN THE GAME: The Stories My Tattoos Tell, with each inked image acting...
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A young man pedals thousands of miles through the Eastern American landscape and his spiritual doubts to find himself and his Lord in THE FOREST...
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An American law student abroad develops an unlikely friendship with a Red Light District worker in the heartfelt memoir AMSTERDAM EXPOSED.
Part travel memoir, part coming-of-age story, BOWING TO ELEPHANTS is an echanting tale of faraway places and people.
STEALING HOME: A Father, A Son, and the Road to the Perfect Game explores family and baseball, where each new inning offers the chance to...
Navigating life and death choices were typical when author Toby Neal was a child in FRECKLED: A MEMOIR OF GROWING UP WILD IN HAWAII.
Through a blend of memoir and medical instruction RESURRECTION LILY tells of one woman’s struggle as a high-risk candidate for breast cancer and her triumph...
A HERO’S HEART is the author's story of a life of abandonment, physical and sexual abuse, serious illness and loss.